Belt-punch



(No Modem I S. E. KEIGHLEY. BELT PUNCH.

No. 566,402. Patented Aug. 25, 1896\ lam/ow 20m Amw W 5 26A 24 M NITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

SEBASTIAN E. KEIGHLEY, OF COBALT, CONNECTICUT.

BELT-PUNCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 566,402, dated August 25, 1896. 'Applioation filed April 9, 1892. Serial No. 428,471. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known thatLSEBAsTIANE.KEIGHLEY, of Oobalt,in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belt-Punches, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a punch with lever-handles and one in which the movable cutting part is readily removable and interchangeable, the cutter also being given a movement in a straight line; and to this end my invention consists in the details of the several parts making up the device as a whole and in their combination, as more particularly hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a detail back view of the device. Fig. 2 is a detail side view of the device with the parts closed together. Fig. 3 is a detail side view of the device with the cover-plate removed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes one of the lever-handles, the head portion of which is formed into two branches b and b. In the branch I), at the outer end, is arranged a transverse socket c, that is adapted to inclose on two sides a sliding cutter-block d. This socket is closed as to one side by a cover-plate e, having a flanged end 6, overlying the outer end of the head and secured thereto, as by means of a screw that passes through the flange into a threaded socket in the head.

The cutter-block socket is formed in part in the substance of the head, so as to form a guide for the block in its sliding movement in the socket. The cutter-block dis provided on the edge adjacent to the rear open side of the socket with a rack 01, arranged to engage the segmental gear 9, that is formed on the end of the lever-handle g, that is pivoted to the other lever-handle, as by means of a bolt or pin h. The other branch of the lever-head extends outward and supports an anvil or block 70 opposite the cutter-block (1. Any convenient form of cutter or punch 61 is secured to the block, and by forcing the cutterblock toward the anvil any article interposed between the anvil and the cutter may be cut or pierced.

The lever-handles are kept always in an extended position by means of a spring is, fastened to one of the handles and thrusting against the opposite lever in any convenient manner.

I claim as my invention-- In combination with a lever-handle having a bifurcated head, a cutter-block socket formed transversely of the head, a removable angular plate secured to the end of the head and with one portion forming one side of the cutter-block socket, a sliding cutter-block bearing on one side a rack and a lever-handle pivoted to the first lever-handle and having a segmental gear on the end in engagement with the rack on said cutter-block, all substantially as described.

SEBASTIAN E. KEIGHLEY.

Witnesses:

S. S. SoovILL, JOHN HYDE. 

